Posted on 05/25/2011 6:07:49 AM PDT by markomalley
President Obama’s lack of experience with royalty was on full display today in England as he mistakenly began a toast to the Queen of England at the wrong time, resulting in “God Save the Queen” blaring over his words and no one getting to drink what was in their cups. Awkward.
“And now I propose a toast to the Queen,” President Obama began in London today, but only got as far as “To the vitality of the special relationship” before “God Save the Queen” cut him off. He kept reading the toast, however, and finally raised his glass to her. No one drank out of their glasses afterwards, however. The Queen herself looked over at him with a hint of contempt (confusion?) in her face, while the other members of the royal family stood stoically around them.
Many may see not knowing the tedious etiquette of proposing a toast to an ornamental political figure a “gaffe,” but isn’t the entire point of America not bothering to care about royal etiquette? Allahpundit at Hot Air has some (rare) praise for the President:
Protocol, apparently, requires the toastmaster to wait until after “God Save the Queen” plays and then begin the toast. But the almighty O waits for no sovereign, so he launched straight into his shpiel. To which I say, good for him. What else was the American revolution about, if not the right of the president to half-ass some formulaic niceties about the British monarch? He should have punctuated it with a weary “whatever” and downed the glass in one gulp.
Video via ABC News below: (video at link)
OBOZO.
he’s an idiot!
I dunno. First the “beast” gets stuck in Ireland (I thought to myself that this does not portend well for the rest of his visit), then he writes the wrong date in the guestbook, and now this.
I think he should come home before he really makes himself look stupid.
I actually thought the worst part was the very very large frown on his face. If he had smiled at his mistake, put his glass down and acted with polite respect (yes, respect—its what politicians and diplomats do when they are at the HOMES OF ALLIES!) no one would have thought much about it. Instead he looks enraged. Does he not have a chief of protocol who tells him how these things go? Where was his teleprompter?
TOTUS did not acccompany the brilliant first buffoon
Who had to take note cards to read a toast
The problem with notecards is the assumption the person holding them can read
Not to worry, the liberal establishment is still over-awed by a black person who is clean and mostly, articulate, with appropriate support
His arrogance fuels his ignorance
YES!
He looked like a sullen 14 year old who has been personally dissed, when the Queen remained in silence during her national anthem.
You can’t buy class—it’s as simple as that. This person has no class—and worse yet, he doesn’t know it.
Payback! The Queen has provided a stage on which she was sure Obama would again show himself to be what he is, an A$$!
Nah, he loves sovereigns, particularly tyrannical ones, but he's just not into Great Britain. 
The White House or State Department Protocol offices dropped the ball on that one.
Bad staff work.
Pretty embarrassing.
Did he present the bust of Churchill (Winston, not Ward) to her?
Jesse sure has her work cut out for her.
How many staff will we have to pay for, for her to be able to shut us up over Hussein’s stupidity bonanza?
I am certain that “O” was secretly congratulating himself on having a staff SO cool that they provided a neat ‘God Save the Queen’ background effect for HIS toast to the Queen.
He was probably hoping that the rest of the room noticed how cool it was, too!!!
Jacka^%
...video mark at :40 seconds - TO THE QUEEN - then she says something to him - and he realizes what a DUMB A$$ he is -— What an IDIOT!!! How embarrassing...I guess all those socialist professors never taught him what protocol is - that is means to stand and pay respect when a country’s NATIONAL ANTHEM is playing....WOULD SOMEONE PLEASE IMPEACH OBAMA!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZCsfyaOGdw&feature=player_embedded#at=67
Mark - Thanks for posting this - this needs to stay at the TOP all day!!!!
I thought it was a Gerorge Jefferson-like grin..he almost looked liek Jack Nicholson as The Riddler in the Batman films..
Too late for that. He really looks stupid already.
What happened to the people who were supposed to coach him. Do they dislike him so badly they let him screw up and then laugh about it?
watch th Video and the idiot cannot even make toast without having it written down for him. he spends the whole time looking down and reading it.
At least he has the same reverence for the English National anthem as he has for ours——none.
TOO LATE - he’s way pass “stupid”...
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